Air purifier



5. B. GELAKOSKI 2,176,174

AIR FURIFIER.

Oct. 17, 1939.

Filed Oct. 4, 1937 4 Sheets-Sheet l Gum/" a.

Oct. '17, 1939. G. B. GELAKOSKI AIR PURIFIER F iled Oct. 4, 19s"? 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 [LGelaZmsii Oct. 17, 1939.

G. B. GELAKOSKI AIR PURIFIER Filed Oct 4, 1937 v 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Oct. 17, 1939. B GELAKOSKl 2,176,174

AIR PURIFIER Filed Oct. 4, 1937 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Patented Oct. 17, 1939 UNITED STATES PATE N T orrlce AIR. PUBIFIER George Bernhardt Gelakoski, Aurora, Ill. Application October 4, 1937, Serial No. 167,304

2 Claims. (Cl. ear-as) This invention relates to a device'for cleaning air with water and chemicals, producing such results as purifying. sterlizing. deodorizing, humidifying, cooling or heating "breathingair.

An important object of the invention is to provide a device of this character having means to draw the air to be treated into the body portion of the device, where the air is treated and exhausted from the device. in a purified or chemically treated condition.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for drawing liquid contained in a tank at the bwe of the body portion of the device where it is broken into a fine spray, the air passing l through the device also'passing through the fine spray where it is treated in a manner as described.

A still further objectof the invention is to provide a device of this character wherein the oper- 2o ation thereof may be reversed so that the device may be positioned adjacent to the ceiling of a mine to treat the gas which usually collects at the ceiling of the mine. With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds,

the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts andin the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes'in the precise em- -3d bodiment of the invention. herein disclosed, may

be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is; a vertical sectional view through a device constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure '2 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1. V

o Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view, taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on line M of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmental detail sectional view illustrating the connection between the vertical water tube and the fan blades;

Figure 6 is an elevational view of the apparatus housed ina cabinet, a portion of the cabinet being broken away illustrating the cooling coilsmounted therein.

Figure 7 illustrates a modified form of pump.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the device includes a body portion indicated generally by the reference character 5, which body is preferably cylindrical in formation and provided with the base 1, on which the body portion is supported. Positioned within the body portion I is the tank 6 adapted to contain water for the the body portion, the lower end of the shaft It being threaded to be fitted into a threaded open- 10 log of the bearing 15, which is hollow so that water may pass therethrough. The reference character It designates fan blades which extend laterally from the bearing [5, and as shown these fan blades are hollow and provided with open- 18 ings ll through which the water may pass, and since the blades It are rotated rapidly, it is obvious that the water will be broken into a fine spray.

Resting in the tank G, is a water tube I 8 which 20 has a flared upper'extremity i 9 that flts within the bearing It, under normal conditions. At the base of the tube 18 are openings 20 through which water may pass from the tank 8, into the tube 68.

V A rod 2i is supported by the shaft it, and has $5 threaded connection with the shaft id at 22, the lower end of the rod being supplied with a worm it of a diameter to closely fit within the tube It to lift the water contained in the tube so and cause the water to pass upwardly through the tube and into the blades, where it is thrown in a. manner as previously described.

In connection with the water lift, it might be stated that the rotary bladed pump i maybe as used in iien oi the warmth, if preferred.

As clearly shown by Figure l of the drawings, the body portion is provided with lower lateral openings 25 and upper lateral openings 25, which openings establish communication between the so interior of the'body portion and the vertical pipes f 26, there being provided partitions 2i and it in i the pipes 26 for dividing the upper portions of the pipes from the lower portions thereof.

Openings 29 are-formed in the pipes 25 and 45 are located at points slightly. above the openings 2d, the openings 29 constituting the inlet openbythe rod 28 to control the size of the openings 3|, whereby the volume of'air from the forced into the lower end of the body portion 5,

lower compartment to the upper compartment evaporator 46 are also supported within the see- I in mines, it is pointed out that the device is supwardly through the pipe 26 and discharged at may be regulated to meet various conditions. the open ends thereof".

Heating elements 32 are provided in the pipes The reference character 6. designates the feed 25 and are in circuit with a suitable source of pipe through which the water flows to the tank electric supply through the wires 33 and 34, the 6, there being provided a float actuated valve 6i wires 33 and 34 being supplied with a plug 35 on the discharge end of the pipe for controlling which may be positioned in the usual wall socket the flow of water through the pipe. An overflow of a room. pipe 62 also extends into the tank 0 and carries Supported within one of the pipes 26, is an of! any excess quantity of water, which may enopen, electrically heated container 4!, adapted ter the tank.

It will of course be understood that the device may be used as a humidifier, deodorizer, disinfecting device or for any other similar purpose, by merely changing the liquid held in the tank 8.

I claim: I

1. In an air conditioning device, a body porto contain chemicals which when heated will throw-oil vapors to treat the air.

As illustrated by Figure 7 of the drawings, the apparatus is supported within the cabinet indicated by the reference character 42, the section 43 of the cabinet housing the coils 44 which are cooled by the electric refrigerating apparatus 45, tiOn. t e w r n 0 said b Serving 88 a tank of well known construction. The cooler and for a q & Partition the y Portion and dividing the tank into upper and lower air tion 43, compartments, said partition having openings,

Extending through the section 43, is a pipe 41 leading from the blower 48, whereby air may be Varying the q y 1 1 D 8 pw r y n the upper air compartment, said body portion having lateral openings above and below the partition, 49 and 50 establish communication the fl y P r at h p nin s. curved P 1- tions within the pipes and arranged adiacent to and laterally of the first mentioned partition, said pipes having an air inlet opening below the partito be carried through the body portion as described.

Openings between the main body portion 5 andsection 43 of the cabinet whereby air treated in the body portion may pass into the section 43 and over the coils 44, exhausting into the room through the screened opening 5| formed in the top of the section 43..

It might be further stated that the pipes 26 have their discharge ends disposed adjacent to the openings Si in top of the cabinet, the openings being covered by the wire mesh material 53. Closures 54 are mounted on the cabinet and control the passage of treated air from the apparatus.

When the apparatus is used for purifying air portion of said pipe beneath the last named partition through said openings below said first named partition andthrough said body portion and means for spraying water from the tank into the air as'the air passes through the body portion.

2. In an air conditioning device, a body portion, the lower end of said body serving as a tank for liquid, a partition dividing the body portion into upper and lower air compartments, said partition having openings, means for regulating the sizes or the openings to vary the quantity of air passing into the air compartment, vertically extending pipes connected with the body ported adjacent to the ceiling oi the mine so that the gas and foul air collecting adjacent to the ceiling of the mine may be treated.

H the devic is to portion above and below the partition, said pipes uid is placed inthem 51: iiioto set n having inlet a with! the portion for drawing air into the body portion and operation and the liquid is carried upwardly through the tube I3 and forced laterally into the blades it which blades are rotated with the reforclng air into the air compartment, said i'an including hollow blades, a hollow shaft on which the tan is mounted, means in the hollow shaft for suit that the liquid will be thmwn through directing water into the blades and upper end 0! mgs of the blades to mingle with Passing the body portion where the wateris sprayed into h u h the bddy portion of the device and-which the incoming air, and means for controlling the is drawn through the device bythe-fan blades 16. passage of air through 'the pipes.

Alter the air has been treated, it is passed up- GEORGE GELAKOSKL vertically extending pipes connected with tions thereof, means for drawing air into the,

means for regulating the sizes of the openings 

